A road rage incident that started at a lane merge on Adams Street ended with punctured tires, a smashed SUV, and two Quincy men facing multiple criminal charges.

By Lane Lambert

Milford Daily News

By Lane Lambert

Posted Jun. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM

By Lane Lambert

Posted Jun. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM

MILTON

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A road rage incident that started at a lane merge on Adams Street ended with punctured tires, a smashed SUV, and two Quincy men facing multiple criminal charges.

William Mooney, 52, of 200 Hamilton Ave., is charged with drunken driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of property damage and assault with a deadly weapon – his foot. He also got citations for those offenses.

Kwame Boyce, 26, of 28 Atherton St., is charged with assault with a deadly weapon – a knife – and malicious damage of property.

Both men pleaded innocent to the charges in Quincy District Court. They were released on personal recognizance and will return to court in September.

A Milton police report on file at the court said the incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. on June 10, amid rush hour traffic.

Boyce told police he was at the Adams Street lane merge, on the Milton side of the Lower Mills bridge, when he pulled his Mercury Mountaineer just ahead of Mooney’s Chevy Silverado pickup truck. Boyce told police that the driver behind him was yelling expletives at him, the police report said.

The police report said that according to a description of events from both men, Mooney got out of his vehicle, and Boyce got out of his. Mooney kicked Boyce, who then brandished a knife and punctured Silverado’s driver side tires, the report said. While Boyce was doing that, Mooney took Boyce’s car keys from the Mountaineer and threw them from the bridge into the water, the police report said.

Mooney got back in the Silverado, rammed the side of the Mountaineer and drove up Adams Street, and Boyce called police, the report said. Police located the truck on a nearby street a few minutes later.

Police said Mooney failed a field sobriety test. Mooney was uninjured. Boyce had a cut on his hand that he told police he got when he punctured the Silverado’s tires, police said. He declined emergency treatment.